latest hammer price
Auction lots
381
Houses
1
Last sold
33 days ago
Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Waterford, bottled in 2016. Based on 381 recorded auction lots across 50 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £40, with the most recent sale at £35. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £29 (low) to £64 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is £32–£38 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is up 16.7%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (up). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Waterford is a whisky distillery. Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2016.
Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is a standard release without strong scarcity signals such as a single vintage, a long age statement, a single-cask outturn or a limited edition. Its secondary-market value is driven mainly by ongoing auction demand for Waterford rather than by built-in rarity.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
Latest sale
£35
24-month median
£40
24-month high
£64
24-month low
£29
Estimated value · likely range
£32–£38 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Scarce at auctiona good find when it appears
Seen at auction
23 lots
Cadence
≈ 2 per month
Trend
▲ 92% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 3% of tracked bottles
Last seen
33 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £35 | 1 |
| July 2026 | £29 | 8 |
| March 2026 | £35 | 2 |
| February 2026 | £45 | 2 |
| January 2026 | £35 | 4 |
| December 2025 | £30 | 4 |
| October 2025 | £35 | 2 |
| March 2025 | £35 | 4 |
| February 2025 | £40 | 2 |
| December 2024 | £45 | 2 |
| November 2024 | £35 | 4 |
| July 2024 | £35 | 2 |
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Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 appeared in 23 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — scarce at auction (a good find when it appears). That is up 92% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 3% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 at auction is £35. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £40, with a high of £64 and a low of £29. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 is up 16.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £40 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Over the past 12 months Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 has moved up 16.7%, with a current median hammer price of £40. The bottle has been observed at auction across 381 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £35, 24-month median £40 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Waterford 2016 Ballykilcavan Edition 1.1 that hammers at £35 would cost the buyer approximately £44 all-in including buyer's premium.
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